Subject: New York

• Stern Defiantly Promises Appeal in Burkle Lawsuit

  Only hours after a New York State judge tossed his defamation lawsuit against Beverly Hills Billionaire Ron Burkle and Bill and Hillary Clinton, former New York Post reporter Jared Paul Stern wrote to LA Weekly in an email, "We will file an immediate appeal. The judge's opinion was biased and disgraceful."

  June 18, 2008

• Weiss' 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008

  25. Prafit-"Nice Weather" The nice weather is long gone--the ostensibly immutable Los Angeles sun blotted by kidney colored clouds and cold rain. So Prafit's ode to the sizzle of July feels like an antique postcard documenting endless light, chicken breasts smothered in BBQ sauce, and basement parties. Disco Vietnam's beat sounds invincible like summer: celestial choirs, twinkling xylephones that sound like the ice cream man's siren, primary colors blending. The answer lies in the coda--Pr

  December 17, 2008

• Prodigal Son

  March 6, 2003

• Doug Harvey's Favorite Non-Human Artwork

  January 2, 2003

• Thank$ a Million

  October 11, 2001

• Crown and Punishment

  July 1, 1999

• A Dollar a Holler

  May 6, 1999

• Queer Town: June Weddings For Gays

  This morning, the California Supreme Court denied a request to rehear its May 15 ruling that legalized same sex marriage. Gay and lesbian couples can now wed, starting on June 17--the date set by the state. Now it's only a question if county clerks throughout California can quickly change the fine print on marriage licenses from a "husband" and "wife" to "spouse" and "spouse."

  June 4, 2008

• "BENINCASA" IS A FUNNY NAME FOR AN AGORAPHOBIC

  October 22, 2009

• Finish School — and Shut Up During the Mariachi

  October 22, 2009

• Movie Reviews: Amelia, Astro Boy, Saw VI

  October 22, 2009

• Ennio Morricone: The Italian Icon

  October 22, 2009

• Theater Reviews: Kooza, Chesapeake, Private Eyes

  October 22, 2009

• Dodgers Not the Only Ones the Phillies Sent Home Early: An Interview With Dodger Stadium Executive Chef Joseph Martin

  The Dodgers season isn't just over for the players, but for all the staff and employees that it takes to uphold a professional sports franchise. One of those people is Chef Joseph Martin, a lifelong Dodger fan who also happens to be the Executive Chef at Dodger Stadium. We asked him a few questions about the loss, his job and whether or not to expect more picante dogs. Jon Soohoo, Los Angeles DodgersChef Martin in Dodger Stadium with Andre Ethier.​

  October 22, 2009

• Already Saved: David Sax Dishes About L.A. Deli Life

  Los Angeles's urban inferiority complex has been seriously challenged in light of recent food news: we are a terrific deli town. Or so claims David Sax, author of Save the Deli, the website and book that just hit stores . Sax will be here next week to discuss all things deli at Langer's on Wednesday, October 28 at 2:30 p.m. ($55 per person, includes lunch, a copy of Save the Deli, and a $10 Langer's coupon). But if you want more dish now, read what Sax had to say to Squid Ink about Los Angeles's

  October 23, 2009

• Interview: Neo-Victorian Violinist, Singer Emilie Autumn

  ​ In the US, Emilie Autumn has long been well-known for her violin skills. She has played with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan and her violin "shredding" can even be heard on Metalocalypse. But, for years now, she has been releasing solo records and touring across Europe with her band, The Bloody Crumpets. After a three year wait, Autumn's career-defining album, Opheliac, will finally be available Stateside through label The End. The album precedes the December release of her book, The Asyl

  October 23, 2009

• Echo and the Bunnymen Plays Ocean Rain Tomorrow

  Echo and the Bunnymen "Seven Seas" Tomorrow night, Echo and the Bunnymen will be at Nokia Theatre complete with an orchestra at which time they will be playing Ocean Rain. All of it. It will be epic.

  October 23, 2009

• Echo and the Bunnymen Play Ocean Rain in its Entirety at the Nokia

  Echo & the Bunnymen at the Nokia Theater, Oct. 24. Seeing a maddeningly underrated and undervalued band like Echo & the Bunnymen is a good way to keep the ears and soul in check, especially the day before a cold front from Dublin swoops in to take over all of SoCal, and to remind us who pays for The Edge's beanies and Bono's shades. Sure, singer Ian McCulloch and company tour every few years and are no strangers to gigging in L.A. But getting to hear them perform the entirety of the 1984 cl

  October 26, 2009

• Top 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: A Loaf of Bread, A Pound of Cheese...

  Not just your plain-Jane American cheese on toast anymore, the grilled cheese sandwich is both comfort food and cultural icon. Proving that you can do an awful lot with a few slices of bread and a hunk of cheese. From a lavish raisin bread with shortribs and tallegio to a simple aged Cheddar and tomato confit on sourdough, many of LA's chefs are taking an inventive stab at the childhood favorite. Here are some of the city's best. Tomato soup not (necessarily) included. Flickr/CharlieChuClementi

  October 27, 2009

• New(ish) Music for the Dark at Heart

  Cover for Blacklist Night of the Century​ Last week, I put together a small playlist of mostly '80s tunes that reminded me of Halloween, but weren't the usual holiday hits. The response was great and I couldn't help but take notice of reader Alexander Tregaskis' comment: " I really wish the definition of 'goth' didn't get tainted by the mainstream, and 'emo' trends these days. Bauhaus, Mission UK, Alien Sex Fiend, Virgin Prunes...We need to bring that scene back. There are a few modern

  October 28, 2009

• Nunez Cleared in Ethics Probe, but Are Spending Laws Too Lenient?

  Assemblyman-turned-public affairs consultant Fabian Nunez​Former State Assemblyman Fabian Nunez was cleared of wrongdoing in an ethics investigation that had already damaged the reputation of the Democrat, who is now a prominent public affairs consultant. Apparently spending $155,000 in campaign funds on lavish international travel, wining and dining in destinations such as Bordeaux, France and buying high-end boutique gifts does necessarily qualify as illegal in California.The state ethics co

  October 28, 2009

• Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication of her book on her teaching methods, The DbD Experience, Chance Knows What It's Doing (Routledge). Saturday, Nov. 7, 7-11 p.m. at Track 16, Bergamont Station in Santa Monica. The event features a sile

  October 28, 2009

• Brunch at The Bazaar: A New Chef de Cuisine, Liquid Nitrogen Clouds, José Andrés and Power Tools

  Brunch at The Bazaar has always been fun, a playful procession of wacky dishes and foaming drinks in a setting that looks rather like a cross between Monty Python and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Last week, José Andrés himself was in his fun-house, which considerably upped the rah-rah factor. The brunch menu sports some new dishes (air bread with smoked salmon, olive oil pancakes, Torrijas Spanish toast). And this month the restaurant appointed a new chef de cuisine, Joshua Whigham, who h

  October 28, 2009

• AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free?

  October 29, 2009

• Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else

  October 29, 2009

• Billy’s: A Deli Grows in Glendale

  October 29, 2009

• Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

  October 29, 2009

• American Dreaming: Charles Burchfield

  October 29, 2009

• This Is It Almost Wasn't

  October 29, 2009

• Fun With Johnny Cakes

  October 29, 2009

• PRAISE GEORGE

  October 29, 2009

• Interview: The DJ Prince of Darkness, Steve Lawler, Says L.A. Is Hot

  Steve Lawler is the Ozzy Osbourne of dance music - a big-room prince of darkness to be sure. The British spinner has been a longtime champion of the more macabre, bacchanalian sounds of the underground, from tribal to twisted techno. Now that the druggy grooves of Europe are back in style - minimal be damned -- Lawler is once again the devil on the shoulder of club-land. The Liverpudlian has been spinning since the dawn of the '90s but he didn't really catch fire until the turn of the millenniu

  October 29, 2009

• Of Ukeleles, Tolkien, Garfunkel and Bond: A Chat With Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords

  Brian TamborelloMcKenzie (front, with Clement) rides the folk train​ October is Folktober for fans of New Zealand's fourth most popular digi-folk parodists, the mighty Flight of the Conchords; following the second season of their acclaimed eponymous HBO show, which bagged several Emmy nominations including one for Best Comedy Series, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement last week unleashed I Told You I Was Freaky, a collection of tracks from their second season plus some classic nuggets that

  October 29, 2009

• Top 140: L.A. Twitter Conference's Greatest Hits

  Tweeps took over Hollywood & Highland's Kodak Theater for the 140 Character Conference, the second edition of Jeff Pulver's global Twitter initiative (first in New York, next in London) that explores the effects of the real-time web on business, media, and culture. Here are our Top 140 (or so) tweets via the #140conf Tweetstream... Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss @heathermeeker @hennartonline @lorimoreno​

  October 30, 2009

• Thomas Keller Update: Bouchon Beverly Hills Opening in 2 1/2 Weeks, Reservation Line Open Today

  Thomas Keller​If you're the sort of person who's beaten a path to Yountville the last few years, to visit Thomas Keller's troika of restaurants, The French Laundry, Bouchon and Ad Hoc, you can start saving on gas money soon. Keller's Los Angeles incarnation of Bouchon finally opens its doors on November 18th. And as of today, you can start making reservations. Bouchon will open in the Beverly Hills Gardens building on 235 North Cañon Drive -- in other words, just head for Spago and keep

  November 2, 2009

• Eric Greenspan Dishes on The Next Iron Chef: No Spoilers, No Grasshoppers, Part 2

  When last we checked in with Eric Greenspan, chef-owner of The Foundry on Melrose and the first chef (and only Los Angeles contestant) to be eliminated in The Next Iron Chef, there were seven contestants. Now there are four (imagine an Agatha Christie story, in a locked kitchen). Last week, Dominique Crenn (San Francisco's Luce) was asked to leave. And last night, in a double elimination, chefs Roberto Treviño (Budati in San Juan) and Nate Appleman (Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria in New York), the c

  November 2, 2009

• A Q & A With Patina Chef Tony Esnault, Part 2: Whisks, Tweezers and Carrot Batonnets for Kids

  In the first part of our interview with new Patina chef Tony Esnault, we learned that the Frenchman was recommended for his current job by Alain Ducasse, with whom he'd cooked for a number of years. It took Patina founder and owner Joachim Splichal nearly a year to find the right chef for his flagship restaurant in downtown's Disney Hall--the kitchen is sound-proofed to isolate the noise from the concert hall--after Theo Schoenegger, the previous chef, left to open his own restaurant in Las Vega

  November 3, 2009

• Clippers Owner Allegedly Didn't Like To Rent To Blacks, Latinos; Pays Record Settlement

  Tenants at some of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling's more-recently acquired Koreatown properties allege that the basketball magnate weeded out black and Latino residents in favor of Koreans who were perceived as being people who don't "complain" as much, according to one fair-housing advocate.Illustration by Mr. FishDonald T. Sterling allegedly pressured blacks and Latinos to leave his buildings.​It looks like the Clippers organization loses again, though: A discrimination lawsu

  November 3, 2009

• Queer Town: Proposition 8, A Year Later

  It's been a long year since Proposition 8 was passed on November 4, 2008, when the existing right to legally marry in California was shockingly taken away from gays and lesbians.Patrick Range McDonaldDays before Prop. 8 was passed, pro-gay marriage supporters took the streets in West Hollywood.​That soul-wrenching vote, however, placed same sex marriage, and gay rights in general, in the national spotlight, and brought forth a new wave of political activism among gay rights advocates and their

  November 4, 2009

• Orso To Close A NYT Eulogy for the Hollywood Power Lunch

  Orso LA​Today's New York Times art section has a nice obituary of Orso, the West Hollywood restaurant that will close its doors on November 21st. "Like Morton's, Chasen's and the original Spago on Sunset Boulevard, Orso -- loved less for its food than for the gossip on its ficus-shaded patio -- is soon to become the latest entry on a list of Hollywood lunch-and-dinner power spots that used to be," eulogizes the Times. Ah, yes, but we still have The Ivy, don't we? Orso manager Carter Cole

  November 4, 2009

• No New York Deli From Shook and Dotolo

  ​Jon Shook shot down a report from earlier today that the Animal duo are in possible talks to open a deli in New York City. "No. We heard the story and had a laugh about it," said Shook. He went on to add that they have no immediate plans of any kind to open a restaurant in New York. For the time being, it sounds like we get to keep the two of them all to ourselves. Animal, 435 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., (323) 782-9225.

  November 4, 2009

• Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Crime and Punishment and The Conquest of the South PoleMICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando Road. Monday evening performances are scheduled for 8 p.m., November, 9, 16 and 30., and include valet parking and a post-show reception with Kearns. $25. (323) 223 68

  November 4, 2009

• Blackboardeats.com: Serious Bargains An Interview with The Editor About The NYC Expansion & Why Everyone Loves Free Salumi

  BlackboardEats.com​BlackboardEats.com, a free email newsletter and website, launched in Los Angeles about six weeks ago. The site, which was founded by former Yahoo! Food editor Maggie Nemser, is based out of Venice (Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Monica) and provides subscribers with discounts on meals, bonus freebies, and restaurant reviews. Nemser plans to launch next in New York, in early January, and then in additional cities. Since the site launched, there have been about 60 local

  November 4, 2009

• Rachel Rosenthal: 83 and Still Swearing

  November 5, 2009

• Movie Reviews: The Box, A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare at Goats

  November 5, 2009

• The Box’s Richard Kelly: Button Pusher

  November 5, 2009

• YOU CAN'T SPELL LAUGH WITHOUT "L.A."! THAT WAS SO NOT FUNNY

  November 5, 2009

• For Those Still Sitting Shiva for Algabar, We Present T-Salon

  Miriam Novalle, owner of T-Salon in New York, tells it like this: when she decided that she wanted to go into the tea business 22 years ago, her mother looked at her dubiously. "Well," she said in a very New York Jewish accent, "are you at least gonna give them a cookie?" Thus, when Novalle opened the newest incarnation of T-Salon on Melrose last Saturday, there were cookies. And sandwiches. Farm to table soups, salads, pastry, and granola. E. CourtlandT-Salon​

  November 5, 2009

• Squid Ink Food Fight: Pastrami Battle, Langer's Vs. Langer's

  The ongoing heated debate between the food lovers of New York and Los Angeles, as far as I can tell, mostly involves a bunch of New Yorkers moving to L.A. and complaining that we don't have adequate bagels, pizza or even sushi. They don't think we have good Italian delis, or even decent Jewish delis. That last claim, though, was given a thorough smacking (like Manu Ginobilli to a bat) by The LA Times last month, giving credence to something we've all been saying for quite some time: that Langer'

  November 5, 2009

• Interview: Robbie Rivera Hates It When His Warm-Up DJs Play 'Crazy' Hard

  The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, points to the resonance of thick bass-lines dipped in symphonic candy. Miami's Robbie Rivera has the sound down naturally. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he taught himself how to DJ at age 13 and onl

  November 5, 2009